Images Dated 25th March 2020

Man and woman of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, Polynesia

Man and woman of Nuku Hiva (St. Christian), Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, 1818. Chief and woman in elaborate feather headdress, cloak and robes with basket and stick. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century

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Inhabitants of California, America, 1818

Inhabitants of California, America, 1818. They wear feather headdresses, and the woman wears a grass skirt and carries a basket on a stick. The land was inhabited by Chumash, Ohlone, Maidu, Miwok, Yokuts, and other tribes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century

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Vintage Britannia Charabanc outside the Victoria Temperance Hotel, New Canal, Salisbury

Vintage Britannia Charabanc outside the Victoria Temperance Hotel, New Canal, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1910s

© The Wentworth Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Britannia, Canal, Charabanc, England, Hotel, New, Outside, Salisbury, Temperance, Victoria, Vintage, Wiltshire